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Internet activity 'to be monitored' under new laws

Ministers are preparing a major expansion of the Government's powers to monitor the email exchanges and website visits of every person in the UK, it was reported today.


1:07PM BST 01 Apr 2012
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Under legislation expected in next month's Queen's Speech, internet companies will be instructed to install hardware enabling GCHQ – the Government's electronic "listening" agency – to examine "on demand" any phone call made, text message and email sent, and website accessed in "real time", The Sunday Times reported.

A previous attempt to introduce a similar law was abandoned by the former Labour government in 2006 in the face of fierce opposition.

However ministers believe it is essential that the police and security services have access to such communications data in order to tackle terrorism and protect the public.

Although GCHQ would not be able to access the content of such communications without a warrant, the legislation would enable it to trace people individuals or groups are in contact with, and how often and for how long they are in communication.

The Home Office confirmed that ministers were intending to legislate "as soon as parliamentary time allows".


"It is vital that police and security services are able to obtain communications data in certain circumstances to investigate serious crime and terrorism and to protect the public. We need to take action to maintain the continued availability of communications data as technology changes," a spokesman said.
"Communications data includes time, duration and dialling numbers of a phone call, or an email address. It does not include the content of any phone call or email and it is not the intention of Government to make changes to the existing legal basis for the interception of communications."
Nick Pickles, director of the Big Brother Watch campaign group, said: "This is an unprecedented step that will see Britain adopt the same kind of surveillance seen in China and Iran.
"This is an absolute attack on privacy online and it is far from clear this will actually improve public safety, while adding significant costs to internet businesses.
"If this was such a serious security issue why has the Home Office not ensured these powers were in place before the Olympics?"
Shami Chakrabarti, director of the civil rights group Liberty, said that both the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats had resisted the plan when they were in opposition.
"There is an element of whoever you vote for the empire strikes back," she told Sky News's Murnaghan programme.
"This is more ambitious than anything that has been done before. It is a pretty drastic step in a democracy.
"It was resisted under the last government. The coalition bound itself together in the language of civil liberties. Do they still mean it?"
Conservative backbencher Margot James said ministers would come under pressure to water down the proposals as the legislation passed through Parliament.
"I am sure there will be considerable pressure brought to bear as the proposals are debated for protections to be built in to protect people's privacy," she told the Murnaghan programme.












































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[lost in a sea]

well britain is a feudalist state owned by the crown corporation,,

the people never had any rights apart from participating in the biggest confidence scam ever, known as governence, which is just a faux duopoly, a facade for a corporate plutocracy that never went away,,

we are just surfs in the eyes of the banking classes that have sent their bloodlines into every position of power, just with all different surnames because thats all it takes to confuse the goyim,the goy literalist babies crying to be drip fed milk because they cant perceive anything anymore thanks to the medes magic wind blowing through their heads,,

essentially they used the last few hundred years of "democracy" to smash their remaining enemies into the ground and consolidate the rest of the wealth and power,,, and now they dont need to pretend anymore that the system isnt just the same as it always was,, so little by little we see an authoritarian tip-toe towards the way things used to be,,

and the british (being some of the worst scared sheeple retards) have been conditioned almost worse than anyone to just be apathetic to what our government does, mainly because they are serial murderers and genocidal egomaniacs and rape us term after term whilst destroying our culture until most people are just zombies with some sort of alien implanted apathy,,

[PoopyTeaBags]

god were fucked.

[Capt.Ahab]

Something tells me that sooner or later I will be turning the computer off or at least limiting it's use to very mundane surfing and emails.
Hell, I went through the first 40 years of my life with no computer and it wouldn't be much of a problem for me to just throw the thing off the end of the dock and never go online again.

[lemonskunk420]

Hell they might as well cut the bullshit and hook us all up to ankle bracelets.

[pangolin]

...also in the news

UK exporting surveillance technology to repressive nations'Fears that software similar to that which government wants to use in Britain is being sold to monitor dissidents abroad


Jamie Doward and Rebecca Lewis
guardian.co.uk, Saturday 7 April 2012 21.00 BST

Britain is exporting surveillance technology to countries run by repressive regimes, sparking fears it is being used to track political dissidents and activists.

The UK's enthusiastic role in the burgeoning but unregulated surveillance market is becoming an urgent concern for human rights groups, who want the government to ensure that exports are regulated in a similar way to arms.

Much of the technology, which allows regimes to monitor internet traffic, mobile phone calls and text messages, is similar to that which the government has controversially signalled it wants to use in the UK.

The campaign group, Privacy International, which monitors the use of surveillance technology, claims equipment being exported includes devices known as "IMSI catchers" that masquerade as normal mobile phone masts and identify phone users and malware – software that can allow its operator to control a target's computer, while allowing the interception to remain undetected.

Trojan horse software that allows hackers to remotely activate the microphone and camera on another person's phone, and "optical cyber solutions" that can tap submarine cable landing stations, allowing for the mass surveillance of entire populations, are also being exported, according to the group.

Privacy International said it had visited international arms and security fairs and identified at least 30 UK companies that it believes have exported surveillance technology to countries including Syria, Iran, Yemen and Bahrain. A further 50 companies exporting similar technology from the US were also identified. Germany and Israel were also identified as big exporters of surveillance technology, in what is reportedly a £3bn a year industry.

Last month Privacy International asked 160 companies about sales of equipment to repressive regimes. So far fewer than 10 have written back to deny selling to nations with poor human rights records. The campaign group warns: "The emerging information and communications infrastructures of developing countries are being hijacked for surveillance purposes, and the information thereby collected is facilitating unlawful interrogation practices, torture and extrajudicial executions."

Many of the brochures, presentations and marketing videos used by surveillance companies to promote their technology have now been posted on the WikiLeaks website, while a list of firms identified by Privacy International as a cause for concern has been provided to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. The trade minister, Mark Prisk, has been briefed on the situation.

Last month the European council banned the export of surveillance technologies to Iranian authorities in response to serious human rights violations. It has imposed similar bans on exports to Syria.

But human rights groups said equipment was still being sold to commercial organisations in the two countries and called for the government to take stronger action.

"By the time the embargo is in place the ship has sailed," said Eric King, head of research at Privacy International. "Our research shows the idea that this is not a British problem is wrong. We need governments to act now. In a few years this equipment will need to be updated; these countries don't have the technical expertise to do it, so this is something the UK needs to be aware of and to take action against now."

In December it emerged a British company had offered to sell software to Egyptian security services that experts say could hack into web-based email. The company, Gamma Group International, insists it "complies, in all its dealings, with all relevant UK legislation".

Last year a public outcry forced an Italian company to pull out of supplying Syria with "deep packet investigation" technology that would allow the country's security forces to access internet service providers. But Syriatel Mobile, Syria's largest mobile phone operator, uses blocking technology provided by a Dublin-based company.

Creativity Software (CS), a British firm specialising in "location-based services", sold technology to the mobile network operator MTN Irancell that campaign groups said could be used to track individuals. The company said its technology provided "the same type of activities that are enjoyed by consumers in many other markets – a hugely popular and successful social networking and location-based mobile advertising service". It is the responsibility of manufacturers to ensure their technology is not used to perpetrate human rights abuses. But there are now calls for them to be subject to stringent export controls requiring a licence to sell abroad.

Privacy International also argues that, in order to prevent dangerous technologies reaching authoritarian regimes through middlemen, there is a need for "end-use" controls that would make it illegal for companies to provide their products when they know or suspect they will be used in human rights abuses.

In a letter to Privacy International, Downing Street said the government was "actively looking at this issue" and was working within the EU to introduce new controls on surveillance.

[lost in a sea]

[trichrider]

callous, cold, calculated criminal cunning creates dire digital dilemna daily...done deal.

and that apathetic wind blowing is a rather disconcerting thought. that we as a species, given the most elegant machinery of mind, have surrendered it so readily to the bullies on the block, and now must remand to them our lunch money.

here too in the states...

https://www.wired.com/threatlevel/201...tacenter/all/1

[Easygrowing]

Just as they have done and doing in sweden-same argument...and if not,they had those excussions-they will find others argument for stick nose,into peoples private things..
would be much more interest-turning those "ideas" around..
would "They" like those-sure not.Time for goes back to Pigeons : ) at least,they are not digital.Unbeliveble..or how it,s spells-utroligt !!
Freedom my ass.sour !

[Anti]

1984... here we come. And only 28 years late!